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Article: Garden produce gives homemade hot sauces plenty of bite
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2006
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For the Jacksons, a love of gardening seems to be hereditary.
These days, son Byron, 36, is in charge of the vegetable garden,
which has been turned over to the tomatoes and three varieties of
rare peppers he uses in his gourmet hot sauce business.
"We always had a garden back there with peas, okra, greens,
eggplant," he says. "I eventually took it over as a little business."
Now it contains almost 400 plants behind a 6-foot fence, including
Red Savina Habanero peppers, which are considered the world's
hottest. At nearly 600,000 ...